Max Results Marketing/Blue Saguaro Marketing
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
162 3131
X170003
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FTC Obtains Court Order Halting World Patent Marketing Invention Promotion Scheme
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At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has found that the FTC is likely to prevail in its case against World Patent Marketing, an invention-promotion scheme that allegedly deceived...
FTC Obtains Temporary Restraining Order Halting Work-at-Home Scheme
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At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court entered a temporary restraining order halting a deceptive work-at-home scheme. The defendants allegedly lured consumers into buying an online...
FTC Files Charges Against Independent Sales Organization and Sales Agents
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged 12 defendants with laundering millions of dollars in credit card charges through fraudulent merchant accounts. According to the complaint filed by the FTC, the...
FTC Returns Money to Victims of Business Opportunity Scheme
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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 2,711 checks totaling more than $372,000 to people who paid American Business Builders and related entities for a home-based business opportunity. The...
American Business Builders, LLC, et al.
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
122 3191
Defendants Involved in Selling Business Coaching Programs Settle FTC Charges
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Seven individuals and eight companies they control have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges in a deceptive telemarketing operation that took millions of dollars from thousands of...
FTC Amends Complaint Against Invention Promotion Scheme Defendants
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The Federal Trade Commission has amended its complaint against the operators of an invention-promotion scheme, World Patent Marketing (WPM), that allegedly deceived consumers and suppressed complaints...
FTC Obtains Court Order Against Envelope-Stuffing Scheme
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An envelope-stuffing operation is banned from selling business and work-at-home opportunities under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The settlement resolves FTC charges that David S...
Fair Guide (Construct Data Publishers d/b/a Fair Guide)
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
132 3001
X130040
FTC Halts Invention Promotion Scheme Charged With Bilking Millions of Dollars from Consumers
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operators of an invention-promotion scam, World Patent Marketing, with deceiving consumers and suppressing complaints about the company by using threats of...
FTC Returns Money to Victims of Business Opportunity Scheme
Date
The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 2,031 checks totaling more than $436,000 to people who lost money to Money Now Funding, a work-at-home scheme that conned people, including many seniors with...
Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen In the Matter of Uber, Inc.
Date
By
Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Former Commissioner
Matter Number
152 3082
Uber Agrees to Pay $20 Million to Settle FTC Charges That It Recruited Prospective Drivers with Exaggerated Earnings Claims
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Uber Technologies, the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company, has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that it misled prospective drivers with exaggerated earning...
FTC Sends Checks to Nearly 350,000 Victims of Herbalife’s Multi-Level Marketing Scheme
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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing checks to nearly 350,000 people who lost money running Herbalife businesses. The checks are the result of a July 2016 settlement with the FTC that required...
Herbalife International of America, Inc., et al.
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
142 3037
FTC Returns More Than $3.7 Million to People Harmed by Pyramid Scheme
Date
The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 285,361 checks totaling more than $3.7 million to people who lost money to Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing (FHTM), a pyramid scheme whose operators were banned from...
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